City zoning: Market would have been asset

9:27 PM,
Dec. 25, 2012

Written by

Diana Blankenship
Springfield

How crazy can it get? The Planning and Zoning Commission denied a zoning request for Walmart to build a Neighborhood Market ("Neighborhood Market fails to win P&Z backing," Dec. 7). One reason? Traffic concerns.

What happened to that concern when it approved a zoning request from Hy-Vee to build what is a 15-acre development on Battlefield Road on 10 acres of land on Sunshine Street? It has to be ignorant not to realize traffic is 10 times or more higher on Sunshine than on Grand Street and Campbell Avenue - or perhaps one of the council members lives near Grand and Campbell.